A little known fact concerning Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW’s) is they are liars.  Truth is neither honored nor valued in this false religious group.

My latest Youtube video proves this:

Beginning at timestamp 2:35, there is a JW who claims to be from the “Sheriff’s office.”  Before I accidentally deleted this video (read here), I had several comments from various people who questioned whether or not a JW could be a member of law enforcement and carry a gun.  The consensus was that they could not.

At timestamp 5:35, you can clearly read his name on his name tag:  George Liebman from the “Kyrene Congregation” in Phoenix, AZ.  Their phone number is (480) 961-3445.

George appears to be inferring he is a deputy Sheriff, wouldn’t you say?  That is certainly the impression I get, further confirmed at 2:54 when he talks about “getting back up here and we can have you arrested.”  And when he tells me at 5:35 that he would have “loved to lock me up,” that leaves no question of his purported authority as a member of law enforcement.

On July 31, 2014, I called the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office in Phoenix and asked them if a “George Liebman” worked there.  No such person was listed, either under that spelling or under “Lieberman.”  Nothing.

It appears that George was lying, behavior that I have previously run into dealing with JW’s.

In reviewing the video, I ask George, “Where’s your badge? (2:31)”  My question appears to take him by surprise and he replies, “I don’t have it with me; I don’t bring it.”  I’m no Sheriff’s deputy nor a member of law enforcement, but I was under the impression that an off-duty officer is required to carry both his gun and his badge at all times.  I could be wrong, but that’s the impression I have.

George clearly does not know what he is talking about in this short conversation.  At all times in this video, I was on public property; any legitimate law enforcement officer should know this.  When George first spoke with me, I was outside the convention center, underneath the expansive, protective overhang.  Here, my constitutional rights to simply be walking around and videoing people is even more clear than when I was inside doing the same thing.

Again, a real police officer would have known this.  There may have been some confusion even among experienced officers of my constitutional right to be videoing inside the building (though well-trained officers would certainly not be confused even in this setting), but not on the outside of a public building: it is clearly established that members of the public have constitutional rights to video anybody they want outside of tax-payer funded and built public buildings like convention centers.  This is what we call a “no brainer.”

Also, what law enforcement professional would ever say something so unprofessional as “I’d just love to lock you up”? (5:34) All the evidence points to the fact that ole’ George Liebman was lying through his JW teeth.

My most popular Jehovah’s Witness video is back on Youtube.  Here it is:

This video had almost 60,000 views and, if memory serves me correctly, hundreds of comments before disaster struck:  I accidentally deleted it.  I was fiddling around with the settings on my Youtube account, trying to tweak the video and make it better, when, all of a sudden, it was gone!

I was stunned.  To this day, I still can’t figure out what I did and how I deleted it, but the damage was done…it was gone.  Incredibly, Youtube does not have a “revert” function that will allow you to “get back” a video you accidentally delete; once you delete a video, it is gone and gone forever.  They need to change that because I’m sure I’m not the only one that had done this.

What’s worse, when I looked on one of my external hard drives where I store my JW videos as backups, the finalized Youtube version I had uploaded was nowhere to be found.  Another disaster!

Yes, I had the raw, unedited footage, praise God, but I spent hours upon hours in putting the finalized version that you saw on Youtube together, and that finalized version was gone.

I did not have the stomach nor desire to tackle such a huge task again so soon, and I pushed it to the back of my mind.  I always thought I would try and redo it, but, life goes on…

Then, a couple of weeks ago, someone left a comment on another of my JW videos asking me where this video was.  He said he remembered it and wanted to watch it again, but could not find it.  Like many people, he thought it was entertaining how insane and ridiculous so many of those JW thugs acted.  He mentioned their faces, how funny their expressions were.

I explained to him that I deleted it, but his positive comment spurred me forward to undertake the herculean task of redoing the video.  Finally, after hours and hours of more work, I finished the task, believing this second version is better than the first.

(More to follow.)

Is America under the wrath of God?  I think it is.

I might be wrong and loathe being presumptuous against God’s nature, intentions and will.  If I’m wrong, and those who argue that God loves America and this is why Americans continue being “blessed beyond measure” are correct, I don’t want to be known as a false teacher.

The reasons why I believe that America is under the wrath of God could fill a 400 page book without exhausting my evidence; I would just be “getting going,” so to speak.

One of the reasons I believe America is under the wrath of God is because this country is going backwards instead of forwards in many areas.  

For example—and this might seem trivial, but I believe it speaks volumes and helps lay a foundation for my premise—the inane fixation that government has on outlawing certain restaurant items they consider harmful to the environment…like plastic drinking straws.  Yes, drinking straws, the almost necessary items we all use to enjoy drinks.

You might be laughing, shaking your head and muttering, “The guy writing this post needs to get a hobby; he has far too much time on his hands.”  Please read on, but first read this article.

There may be legitimate reasons why the government wishes to outlaw the common plastic drinking straw.  No doubt they clog up landfills and are responsible for untold amounts of money damages due to the havoc they wreck on plumbing pipes when they are carelessly flushed down toilets.  I understand this.

But why target an item that all of us use and enjoy countless number of times every single day?   An argument can be made that these straws are almost essential to drinking cups filled with soft drinks (another target of government’s wrath, but this is for another post), especially if those cups are filled with ice cubes.  How else is someone able to easily drink out of such a cup without picking it up and throwing your head back with the very real risk of accidentally choking on a piece of ice?

With this latest government law forcing fast food places and other restaurants to get rid of their straws, customers are being penalized and our dining experience is being lessened, becoming more of an irritant than a pleasure.

My second piece of evidence for America traveling backwards instead of forward is what is happening to the airline industry with their new “pet friendly”  and so-called “emotional support animal” policies.

This is a problem with multiple lines of abuse streaming into the situation, all adding up to a disaster in the making.  To mention one:  we all understand and are sympathetic to an individual with an actual need for a service animal, like a blind person (a real blind person and not simply one who has problems seeing) who has a trained, seeing-eye dog.   Nobody would complain about this person needing to have this animal on the plane.

But what always happens in cases like these, when the government steps in and begins to mandate laws, adding to the list of “service animals”?   Soon, we have new categories—emotional support animals, for example—that includes all kinds of pets:  fish, birds, cats, ducks, hamsters, ferrets, etc.

Then, human nature being what it is—, lawless, selfish and self-centered to the core—pet owners who worship their animals see they can now travel with their pets on airplanes for free…as long as their pets are “emotional support animals.”  And any number of websites will provide you all the necessary documentation for the required “fee.”

But no one likes your pet as much as you do.  You may think that chihuahua you are holding on your lap is the cutest, most lovable thing in the universe, but I don’t.  And I don’t want to sit next to a smelly, defecating, urinating, salivating, barking, shedding animal next to me for the next four hours while I pick out its dog hair out of my Coke.

And I shouldn’t have to, and neither should anyone else.  And for almost a hundred years, air travelers never had to worry about this nonsense until a few years ago; now, it is turning the ever increasing stressful air travel industry into an even more stressful and miserable situation.

These two examples are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg proving that we, the people of the United States of America, are going backwards in countless situations than surging forward, evidence to support my assertion that America is under the wrath of God.